Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco police (usually addressed by the title Chief Ironside), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation, the character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie titled Ironside. When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, in the 1970s, it was broadcast under the title A Man Called Ironside, the show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.[1]

The series revolved around former San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr), a veteran of more than 20 years of police service, forced to retire from the department after a sniper's bullet to the spine paralyzed him from the waist down, resulting in him having to use a wheelchair. In the pilot episode, a TV movie, Ironside shows his strength of character and gets himself appointed a "special department consultant" by his good friend, Police Commissioner Dennis Randall, he does this by calling a press conference and then tricking Commissioner Randall into meeting his terms. In the pilot, Ironside eventually solves the mystery of the ambush, he requests Ed Brown and Eve Whitfield be assigned to him.

Ironside uses a fourth-floor room (for living and office space) in the Old San Francisco Hall Of Justice building, which housed the city's police headquarters, he recruits the angst-filled black ex-con Mark Sanger to be his personal assistant after Sanger is brought in as a suspect who wanted to kill Ironside. Ironside acquires a specially equipped, former fleet-modified 1940 1½ ton Ford police paddy wagon van, this is replaced in the episode entitled "Poole's Paradise" after the van is destroyed by Sergeant Brown as part of a way to trick a corrupt sheriff. At the end of the episode the paddy wagon is replaced by a one-off fully custom modified 1969 1 ton Ford Econoline Window Van, the show became a success as Ironside depended on brains and initiative in handling cases. Although Ironside was good-hearted and honest, he maintained a gruff persona.

Raymond Burr as "Ironside"

Supporting characters on Ironside included Det. Sgt. Edward "Ed" Brown (Don Galloway) and a young socialite-turned-plainclothes officer, Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson); in addition there was delinquent-turned assistant Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell), who subsequently attends and graduates from law school (night classes were mentioned from early on), then married late in the run of the series. Commissioner Randall was played by Gene Lyons who died in 1974.

After the program's fourth season, Anderson left for personal reasons and her character was then replaced by another young policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur), who filled much the same role for four more years.

The series enjoyed a seven and a half-season run on NBC, drawing respectable, if not always high, ratings, as the shortened eighth and final season began (only 16 of 19 episodes produced were aired by NBC), Universal released a syndicated rerun package of episodes from earlier seasons under the title The Raymond Burr Show, reflecting the practice of that time to differentiate original network episodes from syndicated reruns whenever possible. After NBC's mid-season cancellation, however, the syndicated episodes reverted to the Ironside title.

The show was filmed in a mixture of locations, sometimes in San Francisco but also with a large number of studio scenes (including scenes with conversations in a moving vehicle, where a traffic backdrop is used), the shows contained stock footage of San Francisco, with pan shots of Coit Tower or clips of traffic scenes.

Ironside and his team used a rather large open space on the fourth floor of the Old Hall of Justice in San Francisco at 750 Kearny Street between Washington and Merchant Streets, the Old Hall had already been demolished while Ironside was still in production. It had been abandoned in 1961 and demolished in late 1967, the SFPD had begun using their new home by January 1962. In December 1967 demolition finally began, it took five months with wrecking balls and bulldozers to raze the building.[2]

The opening theme music was composed by Quincy Jones and was the first synthesizer-based television theme song, though in 1971, Jones recorded a fuller four-minute band version for the album Smackwater Jack,[3][4] this recording was then edited and used for the opening credits of the fifth through eighth seasons (1971–75). (The entire album track can be heard in the fifth-season episode "Unreasonable Facsimile" as Ironside and team track a suspect on the streets of San Francisco.) The iconic theme music has since been sampled in numerous recordings and soundtracks to recent television commercials and shows.

In addition to the opening theme music, Quincy Jones composed the entire score for the first eight episodes. Oliver Nelson took over those duties up to the end of the winter to spring 1972 episodes. Nelson was then replaced by Marty Paich for all the episodes from the beginning of the fall of that year up until the last episode that was produced in late 1974, the song "Even When You Cry," with music composed by Jones and lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, was performed by James Farentino in the episode "Something for Nothing," while Marcia Strassman had already sung it off-screen in the earlier episode "The Man Who Believed;" both installments were originally transmitted during season 1.

At the start of its sixth season, Ironside did a two-part crossover episode with The Bold Ones: The New Doctors titled "Five Days in the Death of Sergeant Brown" where Ed is critically injured by a sniper and is treated by Dr. David Craig and his medical staff. Part 1 was broadcast on Ironside and part 2 on The New Doctors. Part 2 is now shown in reruns as an episode of Ironside. E. G. Marshall and David Hartman (stars of The New Doctors) received starring credit in the opening credits of both episodes. Part 2 features a longer edited version of Quincy Jones' Ironside theme as heard on his 1971 album Smackwater Jack.

NBC's 1971 fall TV season opened with a two-hour crossover between Ironside and a new series, Sarge starring George Kennedy as a cop-turned-priest. Kennedy's San Diego–based Father Samuel Cavanaugh comes to San Francisco because of the death of a friend and fellow priest and his investigation gets him embroiled with Ironside and his staff, the special consolidated the two shows' consecutive time slots and has been subsequently seen as a TV movie, The Priest Killer.[citation needed]

Jessica Walter guest starred in a spin-off episode for the series Amy Prentiss which aired as part of The NBC Mystery Movie during the 1974–1975 season. She played a relatively young investigator who becomes Chief of Detectives for the San Francisco Police Department. Helen Hunt, in an early role, played Prentiss' pre-teen daughter, Jill. Three two-hour episodes were aired.

Burr and the main cast reunited for a made-for-TV movie in 1993, The Return of Ironside, which aired on May 4, 1993 on NBC, not long before Burr's death, at the time, Burr was starring in a series of telefilms for NBC playing his most famous character, Perry Mason. In the intervening years between the end of Ironside in 1975 and the first Perry Mason movie in 1985, Burr's appearance had undergone some changes, his hair was grayer, he had gained a significant amount of weight, and after years of playing clean shaven characters he grew a beard.

Since nearly twenty years had passed since Ironside left the air, and as he had been playing Perry Mason on television for the previous eight years, Burr felt that he was more associated with Perry Mason, he believed that in order to play Ironside properly and not confuse viewers, he would need to undergo a small makeover to distinguish the Ironside character from the more identifiable Perry Mason. Burr thus had his hair colored (which was unnecessary, since Burr was already gray-haired when Ironside originally aired) and cut his beard down to a goatee. One thing Burr did not need to do, however, was pretend to be disabled, at the time the Ironside reunion went into production, Burr had been suffering from kidney cancer that had metastasized to his liver, and the disease robbed him of the ability to stand or walk without assistance. Thus, like Ironside, Burr was forced to use a wheelchair to get around.

Unlike the original series, which took place in San Francisco, California, the reunion was set and filmed in Denver, Colorado, with the justification that the character Ed Brown had become the city's deputy chief of police. (Denver was also where most of Burr's Perry Mason TV movies were produced.) Galloway, Mitchell, Anderson, and Baur re-created their roles for the movie even though Anderson and Baur had not worked together at the same time on the original series.

In 2013, a short-lived remake with the same name aired on NBC. Actor Blair Underwood took on the title role (with none of the other characters from the original series being used), while the action was relocated from San Francisco to New York City, this version of the character was more in the tough cop mold, often at odds with his superiors over his unrelenting, even violent approach to police work. The series was lambasted by critics and ignored by viewers, and was canceled and pulled after the airing of just four episodes (out of nine produced).

An episode of Get Smart which aired in March, 1969 was titled "Leadside" and featured a wheelchair-using master criminal by that name (and his assistants). Leadside could not walk; however, he was able to run. Another episode, called "Ironhand," had a KAOS operative with a hand encased in metal.

The December 1970 issue of Mad magazine included a parody of Ironside titled "Ironride".

On The Benny Hill Show, Benny Hill played Ironside in a few sketches, most notably in a sketch called "Murder on the Oregon Express" which parodied several TV detective characters.

Impressionist Billy Howard included Ironside as one of the detectives parodied in his novelty hit record "King of the Cops".

The 1980 television movie Murder Can Hurt You spoofs numerous TV detectives from the 1970s and '80s and includes Victor Buono playing the wheelchair-bound detective "Ironbottom."

American Dad has an episode of "Wheels and Legman" that loosely parodies Ironside in which Roger and Steve have a fictional detective agency.

In Region 4, Madman Entertainment has released all eight seasons on DVD, the eighth and final season, which included the 1993 TV reunion movie The Return of Ironside, was released on October 19, 2011.[8]

Season 5 includes the two-part crossover episode "The Priest Killer", a crossover with the series Sarge.

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Ironside (2013 TV series)
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Ironside is an American drama television series that premiered during the 2013–14 television season on NBC. It was a remake of the television series Ironside, which ran from 1967 to 1975. It starred Blair Underwood as the character, wheelchair-using cop Robert Ironside. The remade Ironside was grittier and considerably more violent than the original, the series debuted on October 2,2013. Ratings and reviews were unfavorable to the series, and it was canceled on October 18, the pilot was written by Michael Caleo, who was also the executive producer, while Universal TV, Davis Entertainment and Yellow Brick Road produced the show. The pilot episode was released for early on September 10,2013, via iTunes Store, Amazon. com. Sons of Anarchy actor Kurt Yaeger, himself an amputee, compared the act to blackface, auti Angel, a paralyzed actress who appears in the Sundance Channel’s reality series Push Girls was quoted as saying What are they afraid of. There are so extremely talented individuals who are performing artists with a different ability. Larry Sapp, an independent filmmaker, went as far as to boycott the show by starting a Facebook page called Dont Shoot Ironside. However, fellow Push Girls star Angela Rockwood says she is not opposed to Ironside because the drama, like her show, challenges perceptions of how those in wheelchairs should look and act. In the original Ironside series, the character was played by non-disabled actor Raymond Burr, ironically, when Burr and his original castmates reunited for an Ironside TV movie in 1993, Burr was fatally ill and required the wheelchair. The new Ironside received negative reviews, a summary on Rotten Tomatoes said, Ironside is an unnecessary, lackluster remake that could be a decent police procedural if it wasnt so mundane and monotonous. Brian Tallerico of HollywoodChicago called it the Worst New Drama of 2013 and awarded it 1 star out of 5, saying, the most cliched, least believable, least fun, deserves better than the horrendous, uninteresting writing here. Should be a way to explore how our physical well-being is only one part of our lives and how we approach our work, it’s just manipulative drama that hopes to make you stand up and cheer by reminding you over and over again how tough its title character remains. He called the storylines bland, the reason for Ironsides disability predictable, Robert Bianco of USA Today gave the show 1.5 stars out of 4. He called it an atrociously clunky remake that jettison whatever wit, official website Ironside at the Internet Movie Database Ironside at TV. com

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Detective fiction
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Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional or amateur—investigates a crime, often murder. Some scholars have suggested that ancient and religious texts bear similarities to what would later be called detective fiction. In the Old Testament story of Susanna and the Elders, the account told by two breaks down when Daniel cross-examines them. In the play Oedipus Rex by Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, the character discovers the truth about his origins after questioning various witnesses. The earliest known example of a story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand. In this story, a fisherman discovers a heavy, locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, when Harun breaks open the chest, he finds inside it, the dead body of a young woman who has been cut into pieces. Harun then orders his vizier, Jafar ibn Yahya, to solve the crime, suspense is generated through multiple plot twists that occur as the story progresses. This may thus be considered an archetype for detective fiction, the main difference between Jafar and later fictional detectives, such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, is that Jafar has no actual desire to solve the case. The whodunit mystery is solved when the murderer himself confesses his crime and this in turn leads to another assignment in which Jafar has to find the culprit who instigated the murder within three days or else be executed. Gongan fiction （公案小说, literally：case records of a public law court）is the earliest known genre of Chinese detective fiction, some well known stories include the Yuan Dynasty story Circle of Chalk, the Ming Dynasty story collection Bao Gong An and the 18th century Di Gong An story collection. The latter was translated into English as Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Dutch sinologist Robert Van Gulik, the hero/detective of these novels is typically a traditional judge or similar official based on historical personages such as Judge Bao or Judge Dee. Although the historical characters may have lived in an earlier period most stories are written in the latter Ming or Qing period, Van Gulik chose Di Gong An to translate because it was in his view closer to the Western tradition and more likely to appeal to non-Chinese readers. One notable fact is that a number of Gong An works may have been lost or destroyed during the Literary Inquisitions and the wars in ancient China. Only little or incomplete case volumes can be found, for example, One of the earliest examples of detective fiction is Voltaires Zadig, which features a main character who performs feats of analysis. Things as They Are, or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin shows the law as protecting the murderer, das Fräulein von Scuderi, an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Auguste Dupin. Poe devised a plot formula thats been successful ever since, give or take a few shifting variables, Poe followed with further Auguste Dupin tales, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt in 1843 and The Purloined Letter in 1845. Poe referred to his stories as tales of ratiocination, early detective stories tended to follow an investigating protagonist from the first scene to the last, making the unraveling a practical rather than emotional matter. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is particularly interesting because it is a fictionalized account based on Poes theory of what happened to the real-life Mary Cecilia Rogers

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Raymond Burr
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Raymond William Stacy Burr was a Canadian-American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. He was prominently involved in multiple charitable endeavors, such as working on behalf of the United Service Organizations, Burrs early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain. His portrayal of the murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window is regarded as his best-known film role. He won two Emmy Awards, in 1959 and 1961, for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons and his second hit TV series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. After Burrs death from cancer in 1993, his life came into question. In 1996, Burr was listed as one of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time by TV Guide, a 2014 study found that Burr was rated as the favorite actor by Netflix users, with the greatest number of dedicated microgenres. Raymond William Stacy Burr was born May 21,1917, in New Westminster, British Columbia and his father, William Johnston Burr, was a hardware salesman, his mother, Minerva Annette, was a pianist and music teacher who had been born in Chicago, Illinois. Burrs ancestry included Irish, English, Scottish, and German, when Burr was six, his parents divorced. Burrs mother moved to Vallejo, California, with him and his siblings, Geraldine. His father remained in New Westminster, Burr attended San Rafael Military Academy in San Rafael, California, for awhile and graduated from Berkeley High School. In later years, Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood, in 1986 he told journalist Jane Ardmore that when he was 12 years old his mother sent him to New Mexico for a year to work as a ranch hand. He developed a passion for growing things and, while still a teenager, throughout his teenage years, he had some acting work, making his stage debut at age 12 with a Vancouver stock company. Growing up during the Great Depression, Burr hoped to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater and school in Pasadena, California. In 1934 he joined a theatre group in Toronto that toured throughout Canada, then joined another company that toured India, Australia. He briefly attended Long Beach Junior College and taught for a semester at San Jose Junior College, working nights as a radio actor and he also began his association with the Pasadena Playhouse in 1937. Burr moved to New York in 1940, and made his first Broadway appearance in Crazy With the Heat and his first starring role on the stage came in November 1942, when he was an emergency replacement in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Quiet Wedding, directed by Lenore Shanewise. He became a member of the Pasadena Playhouse drama faculty for 18 months and he returned to the Broadway stage for Patrick Hamiltons The Duke in Darkness, a psychological drama set during the French Wars of Religion. Burrs performance as the friend of the imprisoned protagonist led to a contract with RKO Radio Pictures

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Don Galloway
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He reprised the role for a made-for-TV reunion film in 1993. Galloway was born in Brooksville, Kentucky, the son of Malee and Paul Smith Galloway, Galloway began his television career in 1962 in the New York-based soap opera The Secret Storm as the first actor to play Kip Rysdale. His first nighttime video stint was on Tom, Dick and Mary, one-third of the 90-minute weekly sitcom 90 Bristol Court and he signed up with Universal Studios in 1963 and guest-starred on shows like Wagon Train, Run for Your Life, among many others. Those led him to a role opposite Raymond Burr on Ironside. During the sixth season of Ironside, he and Burr co-starred in the TV Movie Portrait, Galloway stayed through the entire run of Ironside until its cancellation in 1975. He was reunited with Burr on two of his mentors 25 Perry Mason television movies before reprising his role on Return to Ironside in 1993, in 1979, Galloway hosted a syndicated game show called The Guinness Game, which was produced by Bob Eubanks. Galloway made a few appearances on the game show Match Game as well. In 1983, he appeared in the movie The Big Chill as the husband of the character played by Jobeth Williams, in 1985, Galloway joined the cast of the ABC soap opera General Hospital, playing Buzz Stryker until 1987. For a time after his career, Galloway resided in Hooksett, New Hampshire and wrote a column for the Manchester Union Leader newspaper. Galloway died at age 71 at the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, N. b. for credit listings reference Don Galloway at the Internet Movie Database Don Galloway at Find a Grave Don Galloway at Amgad TV

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Barbara Anderson (actress)
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Barbara Jeanne Anderson is a retired American actress who is best known for portraying police officer Eve Whitfield in the television series Ironside, for which she won an Emmy Award. She is also known for her appearance as the secret agent Mimi Davis during the season of the American TV series Mission. Anderson was born in Brooklyn, New York, Her father and she spent her early years in New York City, but during her teenaged years, she resided in the Memphis, Tennessee, area, where her parents had moved. Her interest in acting was kindled in her teenaged years, I did a Tennessee Williams play when I was 16, she said, I knew Id be an actress. There was no doubt in my mind, while she was a student at Memphis State University, Anderson competed in and won the title of Miss Memphis in 1963. Anderson was an actress with the Front Street Repertory Theatre and debuted professionally in Memphis with the Southwestern University Players, later, she acted with the Los Angeles Art Theatre. Anderson decided to move to Los Angeles to find work as an actress and she was successful at this, and in 1966, one of her first TV appearances came in a first-season episode of Star Trek, The Conscience of the King. Anderson also featured in the first episode of the TV series Mannix, Anderson became one of the four original cast members of the TV series Ironside, which began its run in the same year and was the lead actress in the series. Anderson played the role of one of two police officers chosen to assist the wheelchair-using former Chief of Detectives for San Francisco, Robert Ironside, Anderson continued in her role as Officer Whitfield for four seasons. She then accepted a role in the final season of Mission Impossible. Since then, she has acted in several movies, notably the 1973 pilot film for The Six Million Dollar Man. She was paired with her former Ironside co-star, Don Galloway, in You Lie So Deep, My Love on the CBS Late Movie in 1977. Andersons last acting appearance on TV or in films was in 1993, in the TV movie Return of Ironside, in 1968, Anderson won the television Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in Drama Series for her work on Ironside. In 1971, Anderson left Ironside, and full-time TV series acting, because she wanted to devote time to her new marriage to the actor Don Burnett, who was born in California November 4,1930. He is the son of a British father, naturalized American—Albert John Burnett and he left acting and became a stockbroker. This was his marriage, his first wife was the actress Gia Scala. He has no children with either wife, the Filmgoers Companion / with a Foreword by Alfred Hitchcock. Barbara Anderson at the Internet Movie Database Barbara Anderson at AllMovie

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Don Mitchell (actor)
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Don Michael Mitchell was an American actor, best known for appearing with Raymond Burr in the NBC television series Ironside. He played the role of Mark Sanger, and reprised the role in the reunion film in 1993 – his last TV appearance. Other television roles include McMillan & Wife and playing Ed Lawrence on the CBS daytime soap opera Capitol and he also appeared as a policeman in Bewitched. From 1969 to 1970, Mitchell was married to the model Emilie Blake, with whom he had a daughter, in 1972, Mitchell married actress Judy Pace. He and Pace have two daughters, actress Julia Pace Mitchell, who appears on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, Mitchell died of natural causes at his home in Encino, Los Angeles on December 8,2013 at age 70. Don Mitchell at the Internet Movie Database Obituary Los Angeles Times

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Quincy Jones
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His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, and 28 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known for the role of himself in Yakety Yak, Take it Back, Trash Talk, Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor, before moving on to work prolifically in pop music and film scores. In 1971, Jones was the first African American to be named as the director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the Academys Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and he is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the African American who has been nominated for the most Oscars, each has received seven nominations. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, among his awards, Jones was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. Jones was born in 1933, on the South Side of Chicago, to Sarah Frances and Quincy Delight Jones and his father was a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky, his paternal grandmother was an ex-slave in Louisville. They had gone to Chicago as part of the Great Migration out of the South, Sarah was a bank officer and apartment complex manager. Jones later discovered that his paternal grandfather Caesar Jones was the son of a white American man of Welsh descent, Quincy had a younger brother, Lloyd, later an engineer for the Seattle station, KOMO-TV, Lloyd died in 1998. Quincy was introduced to music by his mother, who sang religious songs. When Jones was five or six, Jackson played stride piano next door, Lucy Jackson recalled that after he heard her that one day, she could not get him off her piano if she tried. When the boys were young, their mother suffered from a breakdown and was committed to a mental institution. His father obtained a divorce and remarried, Joness stepmother, Elvera, had three children of her own, Waymond, who became a friend of the young Quincy, Theresa, and Katherine. In 1943, when Jones was ten, his family moved to Bremerton, Washington, after the war, the Jones family moved to Seattle, the major regional city, where Jones attended Garfield High School near his home. He had discovered music when he was 12 and became deeply involved in high school. Classmates included Charles Taylor, who played saxophone and whose mother, the youths began playing with a band. At the age of 14, they were playing with a National Reserve band, Jones has said he got much more experience with music growing up in a smaller city, otherwise, he would have faced too much competition. At the age of 14, Jones introduced himself to a 16-year-old musician from Florida, Ray Charles, Jones cites Ray Charles as an early inspiration for his own music career. He noted that Charles overcame a disability to achieve his musical goals and he has credited his fathers sturdy work ethic with giving him the means to proceed, and his loving strength with holding the family together

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Universal Television
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Universal Television is the television production subsidiary of the NBCUniversal Television Group and, by extension, the production arm of the NBC television network. It was formerly known as Revue Studios, MCA/Universal, NBC Studios, NBC Universal Television Studio, both NBC Studios and Universal Network Television are predecessors of Universal Media Studios. Revue Productions was founded in 1943 by MCA to produce live radio shows, Revue was re-launched as MCAs television production subsidiary in 1950. The partnership of NBC and Revue extends as far back as September 6,1950, with the television broadcast of Armour Theatre, MCA bought the Universal Studios lot in 1958 and was renamed Revue Studios. Following its merger with Decca Records, the then-parent of Universal Pictures, during the early years of television, Revue was responsible for producing and/or distributing many television classics. The most noteworthy included Leave It to Beaver, which ran for one season on CBS before going to ABC from 1958 until 1963. It produced Bachelor Father, for Bachelor Productions, Edmond OBriens syndicated crime drama Johnny Midnight, another of its offerings was the 52-episode Crusader, the first Brian Keith series, which ran on CBS 1955–1956. Also McHales Navy was produced by Revue from 1962 to 1966, in December 1958 MCA/Revue purchased Universal Studioss 367 acre backlot to produce television series, then leased it back to Universal for a million dollars a year for a decade. Wagon Train was the only Revue-produced TV show ever to finish an American television season in first place, NBC Productions was founded in 1947 by RCA. In 1996, the company was renamed NBC Studios, in 2004, NBC Studios was merged with Universal Network Television to form NBC Universal Television Studio. MCA TV was founded in 1951, several years before parent MCAs purchase of the US branch of Decca Records, for more than four decades, it was one of the most active syndicators of television programming. MCA Television and Paramount Domestic Television had formed Premier Advertiser Sales, as a possible outgrowth of this sales joint venture, MCA and Paramount began plans for a new network, Premier Program Service. MCA Television Entertainment was formed in 1987 and it primarily dealt with made-for-TV movies and series like Dream On that were made for cable networks like HBO. Like MCA TV, in 1996 it was renamed Universal Television Entertainment, EMKA, Ltd. is the holding company responsible for a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount Pictures sound library. As an official part of the Universal Pictures library, they are part of the television unit. The first incarnation of Universal Television was reincorporated from Revue Productions in 1966,4 years after MCA bought Universal Pictures, uni TV also co-produced many shows with Jack Webbs Mark VII Limited such as Emergency. Adam-12 and a revival of the 1951 series Dragnet. I, which received critical acclaim and several TV movie spin-offs after their cancellations. In 1990, MCA/Uni TV began the Law & Order franchise, in 1996, MCA was reincorporated as Universal Studios

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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Crime film
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared

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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette

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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

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San Francisco Police Department
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The San Francisco Police Department is the city police department of the City and County of San Francisco, California. The departments motto is the same as that of the city and county, Oro en paz, fierro en guerra, archaic Spanish for Gold in peace, iron in war. The SFPD should not be confused with the San Francisco Sheriffs Department and it is the 11th largest police department in the United States. The SFPD began operations on August 13,1849, during the Gold Rush under the command of Captain Malachi Fallon, at the time, Chief Fallon had a force of one deputy captain, three sergeants and thirty officers. In 1851, Albert Bernard de Russailh wrote about the nascent San Francisco police force, As for the police, the police force is largely made up of ex-bandits, and naturally the members are interested above all in saving their old friends from punishment. Policemen here are quite as much to be feared as the robbers and you pay them well to watch over your house, and they set it on fire. In short, I think that all the people concerned with justice or the police are in league with the criminals, the city is in a hopeless chaos, and many years must pass before order can be established. In a country where so many races are mingled, a severe and inflexible justice is desirable, on October 28,1853, the Board of Aldermen passed Ordinance No. 466, which provided for the reorganization of the police department, sections one and two provided as follows, The People of the City of San Francisco do ordain as follows, Sec.1. The Police Department of the City of San Francisco, shall be composed of a day and night police, consisting of 56 men, each to be recommended by at least ten tax-paying citizens. There shall be one Captain and one assistant Captain of Police, who shall be elected in joint convention of the Board of Aldermen and assistant Aldermen. The remainder of the force, viz.54 men, shall be appointed as follows, By the Mayor,2, by the City Marshal,2, by the City Recorder,2, in July 1856, the Consolidation Act went into effect. This act abolished the office of City Marshal and created in its stead the office of Chief of Police, the first Chief of Police elected in 1856 was James F. Curtis a former member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The SFPD is known for being one of the forces for modern law enforcement. In early August 1975, the SFPD went on strike over a pay dispute, the city quickly obtained a court order declaring the strike illegal and enjoining the SFPD back to work. The court messenger delivering the order was met with violence and the SFPD continued to strike, only managers and African-American officers remained on duty, with 45 officers and 3 fire trucks responsible for a city population of 700,000. Supervisor Dianne Feinstein pleaded Mayor Joseph Alioto to ask Governor Jerry Brown to call out the National Guard to patrol the streets, when enraged civilians confronted SFPD officers at the picket lines, the officers arrested them. Again, the SFPD ignored the court order, on August 20 a bomb detonated at the Mayors home with a sign reading Dont Threaten Us left on his lawn

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Detective
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A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. Some are private persons, and may be known as private investigators, as The Eye That Never Sleeps, in some police departments, a detective position is achieved by passing a written test after a person completes the requirements for being a police officer. In many other systems, detectives are college graduates who join directly from civilian life without first serving as uniformed officers. Some people argue that detectives do a different job and therefore require completely different training, qualifications. In some countries, the practice of a detective is not yet recognized in courts, one of these countries is Portugal, where the proof presented loses all significance when collected by a private detective. Even under this circumstance, the practice of this activity is in demand, some private detectives also disguise themselves as other people so that no one could recognize them. Before the 1800s, there were few police departments, though the first had been created in Paris in 1667. As police activities moved from appointees helped by volunteers to professionals, the first private detective agency was founded by Eugène François Vidocq in Paris in the early 1800s, who had also headed a police agency in addition to being a criminal himself. Police detective activities were pioneered in England by the Bow Street Runners, the first police detective unit in the United States was formed in 1846 in Boston. Detectives have a variety of techniques available in conducting investigations. However, the majority of cases are solved by the interrogation of suspects and the interviewing of witnesses, besides interrogations, detectives may rely on a network of informants they have cultivated over the years. Informants often have connections with persons a detective would not be able to approach formally, evidence collection and preservation can also help in identifying a potential suspect. Criminal investigation, the investigation of criminal activity is conducted by the police, Criminal activity can relate to road use such as speeding, drunk driving, or to matters such as theft, drug distribution, assault, fraud, etc. In criminal investigations, once a detective has suspects in mind, physical forensic evidence in an investigation may provide leads to closing a case. Forensic science is the application of a spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or to a civil action, many major police stations in a city, county, or state, maintain their own forensic laboratories while others contract out the services. Detectives may use public and private records to provide information on a subject. Police detectives can search through files of fingerprint records, Police maintain records of people who have committed felonies and some misdemeanors

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Sniper
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Sniping requires the development of basic infantry skills to a high degree of skill. A snipers training incorporates a variety of subjects designed to increase value as a force multiplier. The art of sniping requires learning and repetitively practicing these skills until mastered, a sniper must be highly trained in long range rifle marksmanship and field craft skills to ensure maximum effective engagements with minimum risk. The verb to snipe originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India in reference to shooting snipe, the agent noun sniper appears by the 1820s. The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word sharpshooter, a somewhat older term is sharp shooter, a calque of 18th-century German Scharfschütze, in use in British newspapers as early as 1801. According to figures released by the United States Department of Defense, the average number of rounds expended by U. S. military snipers to kill one enemy soldier is 1.3 rounds. According to the United States Army, the soldier will hit a man-sized target 10 percent of the time at 300 meters using the M16A2 rifle. Graduates of the United States Army Sniper School are expected to achieve 90 percent first-round hits at 600 meters, different countries use different military doctrines regarding snipers in military units, settings, and tactics.50 BMG, like the Barrett M82, McMillan Tac-50, and Denel NTW-20. Soviet- and Russian-derived military doctrines include squad-level snipers, snipers have increasingly been demonstrated as useful by US and UK forces in the recent Iraq campaign in a fire support role to cover the movement of infantry, especially in urban areas. Military snipers from the US, UK, and other countries that adopt their military doctrine are typically deployed in two-man sniper teams consisting of a shooter and spotter, a common practice is for a shooter and a spotter to take turns in order to avoid eye fatigue. A sniper team would be armed with its long weapon. Sniper rifles are classified as crew-served, as the term is used in the United States military, a sniper team consists of a combination of one or more shooters with force protection elements and support personnel, such as a spotter or a flanker. Both spotter and flanker carries additional ammunition and associated equipment, the spotter detects, observes, and assigns targets and watches for the results of the shot. Using a spotting scope and/or rangefinder, the spotter will also read the wind by using physical indicators and it is not unusual for the spotter to be equipped with a notepad and a laptop computer specifically for performing these calculations. Law enforcement snipers, commonly called police snipers, and military snipers differ in ways, including their areas of operation. A police sharpshooter is part of an operation and usually takes part in relatively short missions. Police forces typically deploy such sharpshooters in hostage scenarios and this differs from a military sniper, who operates as part of a larger army, engaged in warfare. Sometimes as part of a SWAT team, police snipers are deployed alongside negotiators and an assault team trained for close quarters combat

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Wheelchair
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A wheelchair, often abbreviated to just chair, is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability. Wheelchairs come in a variety of formats to meet the specific needs of their users. They may include specialized seating adaptions, individualized controls, and may be specific to particular activities, as seen with sports wheelchairs and beach wheelchairs. The earliest records of wheeled furniture are an inscription found on a slate in China. The first records of wheeled seats being used for transporting disabled people date to three centuries later in China, the Chinese used early wheelbarrows to move people as well as heavy objects. A distinction between the two functions was not made for several hundred years, around 525 CE, when images of wheeled chairs made specifically to carry people begin to occur in Chinese art. Later records show the use of technology in Europe by the Renaissance. The invalid carriage or Bath chair brought the technology into more common use from around 1760, in 1887, wheelchairs were introduced to Atlantic City so invalid tourists could rent them to enjoy the Boardwalk. Soon, many healthy tourists also rented the decorated rolling chairs and servants to them as a show of decadence. In 1933 Harry Jennings and his disabled friend Herbert Everest, both engineers, invented the first lightweight, steel, collapsible wheelchair. Everest had previously broken his back in a mining accident, Everest and Jennings saw the business potential of the invention and went on to become the first mass-market manufacturers of wheelchairs. Their x-brace design is still in use, albeit with updated materials. There are a variety of types of wheelchair, differing by propulsion method, mechanisms of control. Some wheelchairs are designed for everyday use, others for single activities. The iBot is perhaps the best known example of this in recent years, a self-propelled manual wheelchair incorporates a frame, seat, one or two footplates and four wheels, usually two caster wheels at the front and two large wheels at the back. There will generally also be a seat cushion. As this causes friction and heat build-up, particularly on long downslopes, everyday manual wheelchairs come in two major varieties, folding or rigid. Folding chairs are generally low-end designs, whose predominant advantage is being able to fold, however this is largely an advantage for part-time users who may need to store the wheelchair more often than use it

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Police commissioner
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Police commissioner is a senior rank in many police forces. The holder is usually a police officer, though some are politically appointed. In such a case, there is usually a chief of police in charge of day-to-day operations. In either event, the commissioner is the head of the organization. In police services of the UK, Commonwealth and USA, the title of commissioner typically designates the head of a police force. A police commissioner should not be confused with a police commissary, in France, Spain and some Latin American countries commissary denotes the head of a single police station. However titles such as commissaire in French and comisario in Spanish can mean either commissioner or commissary in English, the Australian Federal Police and the autonomous Australian state and territory police forces are each presided over by a commissioner, who is accountable to constituents through a minister of state. The state of Victoria at one time appointed commissioners for both the area and the goldfields. Outranking both was a chief commissioner—a title which has survived the disappearance of the earlier junior commissioners, in Victoria, as elsewhere, the second-highest rank is deputy commissioner. In all other forces, the insignia is a crown over crossed and wreathed tipstaves. In Canada, the officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In the province of Alberta, the Police Act requires the municipality to appoint police commissioners that are required to provide oversight of the police. The commissioners appoint and oversee a chief of police, to whom is delegated the management of the force. The head of the Hong Kong Police force has used this title since 1938, in reference to the police of France and other French-speaking countries, the word commissioner might be used to translate commissaire, which also translates as commissary. It is a rank equating approximately to the British police rank of chief superintendent, the rank above is called divisional commissary. A former intermediate rank of principal commissary was abolished in 2006, the second-highest career bracket in German law enforcement leads to the rank of police commissioner or Kommissar. Training encompasses 3 years in a police academy, the highest possible rank within this career bracket is that of Erster Polizeihauptkommissar or Erster Kriminalhauptkommissar. The work of a Kommissar, in general, centers on investigation of felonies, depending on the branch of police, roughly equivalent to a British commissioner would be Polizeipräsident or Inspekteur der Polizei, titles that differ between police forces in Germany

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Ford E-Series
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The Ford E-Series is a range of full-size vans produced by Ford Motor Company. Introduced for the 1961 model year as the replacement for the Ford F-Series panel van, in addition to cargo van and passenger van body styles, the Ford E-Series has been produced as a cutaway van chassis and stripped chassis. With a 56-year production run, the Ford E-Series is the second longest-produced nameplate by Ford worldwide, for the 2015 model year, the Ford E-Series cargo/passenger vans were replaced in North America by the Ford Transit introduced worldwide in 2013. As of the 2017 model year, only cutaway and stripped chassis configurations of the E-Series are produced, since 2006, the E-Series has been assembled at the Ford Motor Company Ohio Assembly plant in Avon Lake, Ohio. From 1961 to 2005, the Ford E-Series was assembled at Lorain Assembly in Lorain, commercial or fleet users represented 95% of sales, with cargo vans accounting for nearly half of production. Based on the compact Ford Falcon automobile, the first Ford Econoline was introduced to the public on September 21,1960 for the 1961 model year based on sketches that were dated 1957. The Ford models were sized to compete with the Chevrolet Greenbrier, Dodge A100, and the Volkswagen Type 2, the Volkswagen van had made an impact on the marketplace, thus Dodge, Chevrolet and Ford responded with their own versions. Originally offered as a van, a window van with or without seats with up to three rows of seating, offering a maximum eight-passenger capacity, and as a pickup truck. A165 lb counterweight was fitted over the wheels to balance the front-heavy vehicle. The 1961 Econoline made Ford the first American manufacturer to offer a van series as it is now known, early models had a 144 cu in I6 engine with a three-speed manual transmission. Later models had 170 cu in or 240 cu in I6 engines with a manual or an automatic transmission. Ford had projections for building more Econoline pickups than vans, but buyers preferred conventional body design and these closed van body versions were popular as service vehicles, such as with utilities like the Bell Telephone System. In its first year,29,932 standard vans,6,571 custom Econoline buses,11,893 standard pickups, the Econoline was sold as a Mercury alongside the M-Series truck lineup. For 1966 and 1967, Lorain-built Econolines were exported to Canada, production numbers were low, for example, a total of 1,291 Mercury Econoline pickup trucks were built in 1965. Only the first generation of Econolines were sold under the Mercury badge in Canada, the next van sold by the division would be the 1993 Villager minivan. Instead of calling it a 1968 or 1968.5 model, shedding its Falcon roots, the second-generation Econoline became a heavier-duty vehicle, sharing many of its underpinnings with the F-Series full-size pickups. While the unibody construction of the previous generation van was carried over, as they had become introduced as options in Dodge and Chevrolet/GMC vans, Ford introduced a V8 engine option into the powertrain line. With the change of chassis and axle configurations, the Econoline gained a conventional hood for engine access, to aid in engine compartment ventilation, the model was given a conventional grille, styled similar to the F-Series

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Coit Tower
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Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit Memorial Tower, is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The tower was proposed in 1931 as a use of Coits gift. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29,2008, although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coits affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental. Coit Tower was paid for with money left by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, before December 1866, there was no city fire department, and fires in the city, which broke out regularly in the wooden buildings, were extinguished by several volunteer fire companies. Lillie Coit was one of the eccentric characters in the history of North Beach and Telegraph Hill, smoking cigars. She was a gambler and often dressed like a man in order to gamble in the males-only establishments that dotted North Beach. Lillies fortune funded the monument four years following her death in 1929 and she had a special relationship with the citys firefighters. At the age of fifteen she witnessed the Knickerbocker Engine Co, after that Lillie became the Engine Co. mascot and could barely be constrained by her parents from jumping into action at the sound of every fire bell. After this she was riding with the Knickerbocker Engine Co. 5, especially so in street parades and celebrations in which the Engine Co. participated, through her youth and adulthood Lillie was recognized as an honorary firefighter. Two memorials were built in her name, one was Coit Tower, and the other was a sculpture depicting three firemen, one of them carrying a woman in his arms. Lillie is today the saint of San Francisco firefighters. The San Francisco County Board of Supervisors proposed that Coits bequest be used for a road at Lake Merced, Art Commission President Herbert Fleishhacker suggested a memorial on Telegraph Hill, which was approved by the estate executors. An additional $7,000 in city funds were appropriated, the winner was architect Arthur Brown, Jr, whose design was completed and dedicated on October 8,1933. Coit Tower was listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark in 1984, browns competition design envisioned a restaurant in the tower, which was changed to an exhibition area in the final version. The design uses three nesting concrete cylinders, the outermost a tapering fluted 180-foot shaft that supports the viewing platform, an intermediate shaft contains a stairway, and an inner shaft houses the elevator. The observation deck is 32 feet below the top, with an arcade, a rotunda at the base houses display space and a gift shop. The Coit Tower murals were done under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project, olmsted Jr. Jose Moya del Pino and Frede Vidar

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Geraldine Brooks (actress)
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She was married to author Budd Schulberg. A native of New York City, Geraldine Stroock was born to a family descended from Dutch immigrants, two of her aunts had also been in show business, one as a singer at the Metropolitan Opera and another as a showgirl with the Ziegfeld Follies. Her elder sister, Gloria, is an actress, the World War II years of 1942–45 found Geraldine Stroock refining her craft at such traditional venues as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Neighborhood Playhouse and summer stock. Her first Broadway show, Follow the Girls, a comedy, opened at the New Century Theatre on April 8,1944 and ran for 888 performances. The young actress, who was 18 when she was cast in this spoof of life in the theatre. She did not stay with the production for its entire run and this Theatre Guild production of the Shakespeare romance opened at the Cort Theatre on January 15,1946 and closed after 39 performances on February 16. Playing the female lead, Perdita, the actress was noticed by a Warner Bros. representative. That name was also the name of her fathers costume company and her second film at the studio, Possessed, was released three weeks before Cry Wolf, on July 26, and was, again, reviewed in New York earlier, on May 30. This time, she was in place, behind top-tier stars Joan Crawford and Van Heflin. Seeing the young actress for the first time in the latter film, in her third film, Warners allowed its new contract player to rise to the level of a co-star. There was no happy ending for the two doomed protagonists, and the film, structured as a feature, was little-noticed. It was released in December 1948, but the downbeat film, for The Reckless Moment, directed by Max Ophuls, she was third-billed behind James Mason and Joan Bennett. Brooks, aged 24, was cast as Bennetts 17-year-old daughter, whose affair with a seedy. The Columbia film was released in December 1949, a year after her previous appearance in An Act of Murder. Her final American film of the 1940s, Challenge to Lassie was made in Technicolor at MGM. Playing the cemetery caretakers daughter, she had the female role of any importance, and was also given a couple of good dramatic scenes. Her later film appearances were few but included roles in Johnny Tiger starring Robert Taylor, three years later, with the film finally receiving a shortened and censored U. S. release, A. H. He described the film, however, as a sad and limp romance, the second title, Vulcano, had an Oscar-nominated director, William Dieterle, and two top Italian stars, Anna Magnani and Rossano Brazzi, who were billed above her

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Tiny Tim (musician)
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Herbert Buckingham Khaury, known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American singer, most of the time ukulele player, and musical archivist. He is best remembered for his hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips sung in a high falsetto/vibrato voice, Tiny Tim was born in Manhattan, New York City on April 12,1932. His mother was Tillie, a garment worker, who was the daughter of a rabbi and she had immigrated from Brest-Litovsk as a teen in 1914. Tinys father, Butros Khaury, was a worker from Beirut. Tiny Tim displayed musical talent at a young age. At the age of five, his father gave him a vintage wind up Gramophone and he would sit for hours listening to the record. At the age of six, he began teaching himself guitar, by his pre-teen years, he developed a passion for records, specifically those from the 1900s through the 1930s. He began spending most of his time at the New York Public Library, reading about the history of the phonograph industry. He would research sheet music, often making photographic copies to take home to learn, after repeating his sophomore year of high school, he dropped out entirely, taking a series of menial jobs. I can go up high as well, by the early 1950s, he had landed a job as a messenger at the New York office of MGM Studios, where he became ever more fascinated with the entertainment industry. He then entered a talent show and sang You Are My Sunshine in his newly discovered falsetto. He started performing at dance club amateur nights under different names, such as Texarkana Tex, Judas K. Foxglove, Vernon Castle, and Emmett Swink. His mother did not understand Herberts change in appearance and was intending to take her son, now in his twenties, to see a psychiatrist at Bellvue Hospital, until his father stepped in. In 1959, he dropped all his stage names, and performed as Larry Love. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote, I first saw Tiny Tim very early in his career, in Greenwich Village in the winter of 1962-63. In 1963 he landed his first paying gig at Page 3 and he performed for the next two years as Dary Dover, and after that, Sir Timothy Timms. After being booked to follow an act, his manager. These tracks were recorded with musicians who went on to be in The Band, the I Got You Babe performance led to a booking on the Rowan and Martins Laugh-In, an American television comedy-variety show

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Wally Cox
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Wallace Maynard Wally Cox was an American comedian and actor, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States. He appeared in the U. S. television series Mister Peepers from 1952 to 1955, plus several other popular shows, Cox was the voice of the popular animated canine superhero Underdog. Although often cast as a meek milquetoast, he was quite athletic. Cox was born on December 6,1924, in Detroit, when he was 10, he moved with his divorced mother, mystery author Eleanor Blake, and a younger sister to Evanston, Illinois, where he became close friends with a neighborhood child, Marlon Brando. His family moved frequently, eventually to Chicago, then New York City, then back to Detroit, during World War II, Cox and his family returned to New York City, where he attended City College of New York. He next spent four months in the United States Army, and he supported his invalid mother and sister by making and selling jewelry in a small shop and at parties, where he started doing comedy monologues. These would lead to performances at nightclubs, such as the Village Vanguard. He became the roommate of Marlon Brando, who encouraged him to acting with Stella Adler. Cox and Brando remained close friends for the rest of Coxs life, Brando is also reported to have kept Coxs ashes in his bedroom and conversed with them nightly. In 1949, Cox appeared on the CBS network-radio show Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts, the first half of his act was a monologue in a slangy, almost-mumbled punk-kid characterization, telling listeners about his friend Dufo, What a crazy guy. The gullible oaf Dufo would take any dares and fall for his gangs pranks time after time, and Cox would recount the awful consequences, Sixteen stitches. Wallace Cox earned a big hand that night, but lost by a margin to The Chordettes. The Dufo routine was paired with Tavern in the Town, Cox had a huge impact in 1951 with a starring role as a well-meaning but ineffective policeman on Philco Television Playhouse. Producer Fred Coe approached Cox about a role in a proposed live television sitcom, Mister Peepers. The show ran on NBC Television for three years, during this time, he guest-starred on NBCs The Martha Raye Show. In 1959, Cox was featured in the title role in The Vincent Eaglewood Story on NBCs Western series, Wagon Train. In 1963, Cox played a prominent supporting role as Preacher Goodman in the Earl Hamner novel brought to the screen, Cox played the role of a Navy sonar man in the The Bedford Incident in 1964. In 1965, he played the role of a drug-addicted doctor opposite Brando in the World War II suspense film and he also was a guest on the game show Whats My Line. and on the pilot episodes of Mission, Impossible and It Takes a Thief

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Joel Fabiani
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Joel Fabiani is an American film, television and theater actor. Fabiani was born in Watsonville, California, as the youngest of three children to parents whose backgrounds were a mix of Italian, Austrian, Irish and Native American roots, the family moved a lot, so young Joel attended a total of no less than 17 different schools. After graduating from school, he joined the Army, then went to college. After graduation, he studied at the Actors Workshop in San Francisco for two years, after two years at the Workshop, he moved to New York, where he started out playing in summer stock and Off-Broadway productions. S. His first small roles on television shows were in Love of Life and The Doctors, Look Up and Live, afterwards he played Dr. Schley in the pilot episode of Ironside. I hadnt done that much except a very splashy commercial for a cigarette, so they looked that over and said, Yeah, thats kinda what we were looking for. Fabiani was then invited to England for tests and they shot some footage of me jumping over boxes and being very athletic. And then I went back to New York and a later they said. So I flew back and within a couple of weeks shooting the show. Fabiani and his moved to the United Kingdom, where he co-starred in Department S. The show is considered to be a forerunner of The X-Files and was about a branch of Interpol dealing with particularly baffling cases that other agencies had failed to solve. Fabiani played the team leader Stewart Sullivan, a pragmatic man of action and determination. Like most SpyFi shows of the 1960s, Department S did have elements of Bond, episode 7 for instance, Handicap – Dead, where Sullivan attends a golf tournament in Scotland and ends up investigating the suspicious death of one of the golfers, was inspired by Goldfinger. Fabiani was highly esteemed and appreciated by his fellow cast members, guest star Kate OMara described him as most charming and a perfect American gentleman. His co-star Rosemary Nicols called him a sweet guy. He always came prepared, and he knew exactly what he was doing, and Peter Wyngarde declared, Joel was wonderful. The show ran successfully in the UK and was syndicated worldwide, including the US, at one point in the early 1970s it was voted the most popular series in the world. However, the producers set their sights on other projects, such as the equally short-lived spin-off Jason King, which also only ran for one season

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Susan Saint James
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Susan Saint James is an American actress and activist, most widely known for her work in television during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Saint James was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Connecticut family, the daughter of Constance, a teacher, and Charles Daniel Miller, Saint James was raised in Rockford, Illinois, where she began modeling as a teenager. In her younger years she attended the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest. She later attended the Connecticut College for Women and she moved to California at age 20, when she began her acting career. Her first screen role was in the TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game with Tony Franciosa, among her other early television appearances were two episodes of the first season of Ironside. She also had a role in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows. In the first-season story Pineapple Rose, she was featured when her character was kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. In 1967, Saint James had a part in the pilot episode of the Robert Wagner crime-caper series It Takes a Thief. This led to a role playing a new character, Charlene Chuck Brown, Alexander Mundys fellow thief. She was featured in four episodes of the series from 1968 to 1970 and she went on to appear in the pilot episode of the western series Alias Smith and Jones. Saint James left the show to further her career as an actress in feature films, such as co-starring with Peter Fonda in the film Outlaw Blues. She achieved significant success in the vampire comedy Love at First Bite and followed up with a role in the comedy How to Beat the High Cost of Living, co-starring Jessica Lange, between films, she made a guest appearance in the March 3,1980 episode of M*A*S*H. After other film ventures failed to establish her, she returned to television and she received three more Emmy Award nominations for this role. Saint James was a celebrity and commentator for World Wrestling Federation s WrestleMania 2 event in 1986 along with Vince McMahon, in her mid-40s, Saint James proclaimed herself retired after Kate & Allie ended. In 1998, Saint James, her sister Mercedes Dewey and friend Barrie Johnson founded Seedling and Pip and she also starred in a Warner Theatre 1999 production of The Miracle Worker. On June 11,2008, Saint James was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Saint James married aspiring writer-director Richard Neubert at age 21, but the marriage lasted only a year. She was married a second time in 1971, to Thomas Lucas and they had a daughter, Sunshine Lucas, and a son, Harmony Lucas, the marriage lasted six years. While guest-hosting Saturday Night Live in 1981, Saint James met her husband, then-SNL executive producer Dick Ebersol

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E. G. Marshall
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Among his film roles he is perhaps best known as the unflappable, conscientious Juror #4 in Sidney Lumets courtroom drama 12 Angry Men. He also played the President of the United States in Superman II and Superman II, Marshall was born Everett Eugene Grunz in Owatonna, Minnesota, the son of Hazel Irene and Charles G. Grunz. During his life, he not to reveal what E. G. stood for. According to the Social Security Death Index, even his Social Security card showed his name as. He attended both Carleton College and the University of Minnesota, although most familiar for his later television and movie roles, Marshall also had a distinguished Broadway career. In subsequent years, hed land the roles in The Crucible. In 1973, he returned to the stage to play the title role in a highly praised production of Macbeth in Richmond, Virginia. From January 1974 until February 1982, Marshall was the original host of the nightly radio drama. He had seven children in all, including Jed, Sarah, Jill, Degen and he died of lung cancer in Bedford, New York, on August 24,1998. His grave is in the Middle Patent Rural Cemetery, located in the hamlet of Banksville, as a member of the Committee for National Health Insurance, E. G. Marshall was a long-time advocate for government-provided health care in the United States. During the 1968 United States presidential campaign, he filmed and narrated a political advertisement endorsing Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, E. G. Marshall at the Internet Movie Database E. G. Marshall at the Internet Broadway Database E. G. Marshall at Internet off-Broadway Database E. G. Marshall at Find a Grave E. G. Marshall interview video at the Archive of American Television

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Harrison Ford
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Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his roles as Han Solo in the Star Wars film series. Six of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner. In 1997, Ford was ranked No.1 in Empires The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. As of 2016, the U. S. domestic box-office grosses of Fords films total over US$4.7 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $6 billion, Ford is married to actress Calista Flockhart. Ford was born at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to Christopher Ford, an executive and former actor, and Dorothy. A younger brother, Terence, was born in 1945, Fords paternal grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of Irish Catholic and German descent, respectively. Fords maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, when asked in which religion he and his brother were raised, Ford jokingly responded, Democrat, to be liberals of every stripe. Ford was active in the Boy Scouts of America, and achieved its second-highest rank and he worked at Napowan Adventure Base Scout camp as a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because of this, he and director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in the film Indiana Jones, in 1960, Ford graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His was the first student voice broadcast on his high schools new radio station, WMTH and he attended Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He took a class in the final quarter of his senior year to get over his shyness. Ford, a late bloomer, became fascinated with acting. In 1964, after a season of stock with the Belfry Players in Wisconsin. He did not get it, but stayed in California and eventually signed a contract with Columbia Pictures New Talent program. His first known role was a role as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round. There is little record of his roles in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the feature

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Paul Winfield
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Paul Edward Winfield was an American television, film and stage actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in the landmark film Sounder and he portrayed Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1978 television miniseries King, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Winfield was also known to science fiction fans for his roles in The Terminator, Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan and he received five Emmy nominations overall, winning for his 1994 guest role in Picket Fences. Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lois Beatrice Edwards and his stepfather from the age of eight was Clarence Winfield, a city trash collector and construction worker. He graduated from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, a life member of The Actors Studio, Winfield carved out a diverse career in film, television, theater and voiceovers by taking ground breaking roles at a time when black actors were rarely cast. He first appeared in the 1965 Perry Mason episode, The Case of the Runaway Racer, as Mitch and his first major feature film role was in the 1969 film, The Lost Man starring Sidney Poitier. Winfield first became well-known to television audiences when he appeared for several years opposite Diahann Carroll on the television series Julia. Filmed during a point of racial tensions in the United States. He also starred as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1978 miniseries King, in 1973, Winfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1972 film Sounder, and his co-star in that film, Cicely Tyson, was nominated for Best Actress. He also appeared, in a different role, in the 2003 Disney-produced television remake of Sounder, Winfield played the part of “Jim the Slave” in Huckleberry Finn which was a musical based on the novel by Mark Twain. Winfield also starred in miniseries, including Scarlett, and two based on the works of novelist Alex Haley, Roots, The Next Generations and Queen, Winfield gained a new segment of fans for his brief but memorable roles in several science fiction television series and movies. In 1996, he was part of the ensemble cast in Tim Burtons comic homage to 1950s science fiction Mars Attacks. Playing the complacently self-satisfied Lt. General Casey, on the small screen Star Trek franchise, he appeared as an alien captain who communicates in metaphor in the Star Trek, The Next Generation episode Darmok. He also portrayed the character of Julian Barlow in the television series 227 during its last two seasons, Winfield also took on roles as homosexual characters in the films Mikes Murder in 1984 and again in 1998 in the film Relax. Its Just Sex. He found success off-camera due to his unique voice, in his voiceover career, he is perhaps best known as the narrator for the A&E true crime series City Confidential, a role he began in 1998 and continued with until his death in 2004. Throughout his career, Winfield frequently managed to perform in the theater and his only Broadway production, Checkmates, in 1988, co-starring Ruby Dee, was also the Broadway debut of Denzel Washington. He also appeared in productions at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Winfield was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in the King and Roots, The Next Generations. He won an Emmy Award, in 1995, for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, Winfield was gay, but remained discreet about it in the public eye

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Paul Fix
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Peter Paul Fix was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in Westerns. Fix appeared in more than a hundred movies and dozens of shows over a 56-year career spanning from 1925 to 1981. Fix was best known for portraying Marshal Micah Torrance, opposite Chuck Connorss character in The Rifleman from 1958-1963, Fix later appeared with Chuck Connors in the 1966 western film Ride Beyond Vengeance. Paul Fix was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, to Wilhelm Fix, a brewmaster, and the former Louise C. Walz, though sources say he was born Paul Fix Morrison His mother and father were German immigrants who had left their Black Forest home. A veteran of the United States Navy during World War I, by the 1920s, he had moved to Hollywood, and performed in the first of almost 350 movie and television appearances. In the 1930s, he became friends with John Wayne and he was Waynes acting coach and eventually appeared as a featured player in about 27 of Waynes films. Fix worked in films such as Lucky Star and Ladies Love Brutes. Fix later appeared as Richard Bravo in the 1950s cult classic, The Bad Seed, The Sea Chase playing Heinz the cook, though Fix is best-remembered for his recurring role as Marshal Micah Torrance on ABCs The Rifleman, he also worked in many other series in guest-starring roles. Ron Hayes, Charles Fredericks, and Stuart Randall also appeared in this episode, seven months later, Byrnes was cast in the new 77 Sunset Strip ABC/WB production. On Christmas Day,1958, Fix appeared in the episode Medal for Valor on CBSs Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater. Manning, who won a Medal of Honor, returns three years in the United States Army with an affidavit certifying that he was a military substitute so that he can claim western land. Rufus Stewart reneges on the promise because the son, the sheriff, is running for the United States House of Representatives. Oddly, Rufus ends up being shot to death in a confrontation that he caused, the episode does not reveal if the sheriff was elected to Congress but considers the political liability of one having hired a substitute in the war. Fix played the role of U. S. President Zachary Taylor in the 1960 episode That Taylor Affair of the NBC western series, Riverboat. Arlene Dahl was cast in this episode as Lucy Belle, in 1961, Fix appeared as Ramsey Collins in the series finale, Around the Dark Corner, of the NBC crime drama Dante. That same year he played Dr. Abel in the episode The Haven on The DuPont Show with June Allyson, other television credits included Adventures of Superman and the adventure series, Northwest Passage. Fix played Dr. Mark Piper, Leonard McCoys predecessor in the pilot episode of Star Trek

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Harold Gould
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Harold Vernon Gould was an American actor best known for playing Miles Webber on the 1985-1992 sitcom The Golden Girls and Martin Morgenstern in the 1974-1978 sitcom Rhoda. He is known for playing elegant, well-dressed men, and he regularly played Jewish characters and grandfather-type figures on television, Gould was born to a Jewish family in Schenectady, New York. He was the son of Louis Goldstein, a worker, and Lillian. Gould was raised in Colonie, New York and was valedictorian of his school class. He enrolled at Albany Teachers College upon graduation, and studied to become a social studies or English teacher, after two years in college, Gould enlisted in the United States Army, during World War II, and saw combat in France in a mortar battalion. He developed trench foot, and was sent to England to recover, after convalescence, Gould served in a rail transport unit in France. After the war, Gould returned to Albany Teachers College to study drama and he performed in summer stock theatre on Cape Cod, then decided to enroll at Cornell University to study drama and speech. Gould earned a master of arts degree in 1948 and a Ph. D. in theatre in 1953 from Cornell, upon graduation, Gould accepted a position at Randolph-Macon Womans College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he spent three years teaching and doing stage work. He made his theatre debut in 1955 as Thomas Jefferson in The Common Glory in Williamsburg. In 1956, Gould was offered a professorship in the department at the University of California, Riverside. He taught there until 1960, when he decided to try acting himself. He had difficulty finding acting jobs at first, and had to work as a security guard. Gould made his debut in Two for the Seesaw but was not credited for his work. Gould originated the role of Marlo Thomass father Lou in the 1965 pilot for That Girl and he appeared in The Long, Hot Summer and He & She, two short-lived television series. When ABC turned that episode into a series called Happy Days, however, when production was delayed, he went abroad to perform in a play. Gould would later state that a requirement to shave his beard was also a factor in his declining the role, in 1972, Gould was cast as Martin Morgenstern, the father of Marys best friend Rhoda, in an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He reprised the role the following year and was hired as a regular when Rhoda became a spin-off in 1974, after it was canceled, he returned to Rhoda for the remaining run. He also appeared in the miniseries Washington, Behind Closed Doors, in the 1980 NBC miniseries The Scarlett OHara War, he portrayed Louis B. Mayer and gained an Emmy nomination

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Gerald S. O'Loughlin
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Continuing to hone his skills at the Actors Studio, he would land a handful of TV and/or film roles throughout the 1950s. OLoughlin was a native of New York City, before becoming an actor, he earned a college degree in mechanical engineering. OLoughlin served two tours of duty in the Marines and he enlisted during World War II and was recalled to active duty during the Korean conflict. It was during the 60s and 70s, however, that OLoughlin would become ubiquitous on TV. One of his early guest-starring role was on ABCs Going My Way, OLoughlin appeared in an episode of the 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle. He appeared in three episodes of Hawaii Five-O, the first was aired January 29,1969 in the episode The Box. OLoughlin played the tough but sympathetic figure of a group of prison inmates who take Hawaii Five-O chief Steve McGarrett hostage. The second was called Six Kilos on March 12,1969, and he also appeared on Cannon on February 22,1972, in the episode Flight of the Hawks. He also appeared on episode 16 of the TV show The Green Hornet, in Season 2 Episode 22 of Mission, Impossible, he played a killer for hire. In 1970-1971, OLoughlin portrayed Devin McNeil in the CBS crime drama Storefront Lawyers, from 1972 to 1976 OLoughlin appeared as Lt. Ed Ryker on The Rookies. He has also appeared in roles on the series Our House. In 1978, he appeared in the episode of The Eddie Capra Mysteries. OToole in the 1983 made-for-TV miniseries The Blue and the Gray, in 1986, OLoughlin played the part of Mr. Parks in a first season episode of Highway to Heaven entitled The Brightest Star. In 1988, he played Tom Callahan in Dirty Dancing.264 In 1992 he appeared as Ben Oliver in Murder She Wrote in the episode Badge of Honor, OLoughlins professional acting career began in repertory work at Crystal Lake Theatre in upstate New York. The highlight of OLoughlins stage career was a tour of A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski. His movie credits include Ensign Pulver, In Cold Blood, Ice Station Zebra, The Valachi Papers, OLoughlin and his wife Meryl Abeles OLoughlin, had two children, Chris OLoughlin, a member of the 1992 United States Olympic épée fencing team, and Laura OLoughlin. OLoughlin died of causes in Los Angeles on July 31,2015

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Jackie Cooper
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John Cooper, Jr. known as Jackie Cooper, was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was an actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination, at age nine, he was also the youngest performer to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role—an honor that he received for the film Skippy. Cooper was born John Cooper, Jr. in Los Angeles, Coopers father, John Cooper Sr. left the family when Jackie was only two years old. His mother, Mabel Leonard Bigelow, was a stage pianist, Coopers maternal uncle, Jack Leonard, was a screenwriter, and his maternal aunt, Julie Leonard, was an actress married to director Norman Taurog. His stepfather was C. J. Bigelow, a production manager. His mother was Italian American, Cooper was told by his family that his father was Jewish, Cooper first appeared in films as an extra with his grandmother, who would bring him along in hopes of aiding her own attempts to get extra work. At age three, Jackie appeared in Lloyd Hamilton comedies under the name of Leonard and he graduated to bit parts in feature films such as Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 and Sunny Side Up. His director in two films, David Butler, recommended the boy to director Leo McCarey, who arranged an audition for the Our Gang comedy series produced by Hal Roach. Cooper joined the series in the short Boxing Gloves in 1929 and he initially was only a supporting character in the series, but by early 1930 he had done so well with the transition to sound films that he had become one of the Gangs major characters. He was the character in the episodes The First Seven Years, When the Wind Blows. His most notable Our Gang shorts explore his crush on Miss Crabtree, the schoolteacher played by June Marlowe, which included the trilogy of shorts Teachers Pet, Schools Out, and Love Business. Although Paramount paid Roach $25,000 for Coopers services, Cooper received only his standard Roach salary of $50 per week, the movie catapulted young Cooper to super stardom. Our Gang producer Hal Roach sold Jackies contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1931, Cooper began a long onscreen relationship with actor Wallace Beery in such films as The Champ, The Bowery, The Choices of Andy Purcell, Treasure Island, and OShaughnessys Boy. A legion of critics and fans have lauded the relationship between the two as an example of classic movie magic. Cooper played the role in the first two Henry Aldrich movies, What a Life and Life with Henry. Not conventionally handsome as he approached adulthood, Cooper had typical child-actor problems finding roles as an adolescent, Cooper served in the US Navy during World War II, becoming a Captain and receiving the Legion of Merit. His career was at a nadir when he starred in two television sitcoms, NBCs The People’s Choice with Patricia Breslin and CBSs Hennesey with Abby Dalton

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James Farentino
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James Farentino was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 100 television, film, and stage roles, among them The Final Countdown, Jesus of Nazareth, born in Brooklyn, New York, Farentino attended local schools followed later by studying drama and acting in Catholic school. In the 1950s/60s, he went on to stage and a few TV roles, early in 1967, he appeared in Barry Sullivans NBC western series The Road West in the episode Reap the Whirlwind. In 1969, he starred opposite Patty Duke in the film Me, Farentino was one of the lawyers in NBC TV series The Bold Ones, which also starred Burl Ives and Joseph Campanella. He made two appearances in the 1970s anthology television series Night Gallery, once with then-wife Michele Lee, in 1973, he appeared in the episode The Soft, Kind Brush of the romantic anthology series Love Story. During the 1970s, he appeared on NBCs Cool Million, in 1978, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Special for his portrayal of Simon Peter in the miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth. In 1980, Farentino starred in The Final Countdown with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, Farentino appeared as Frank Chaney in the short-lived 1984 ABC series Blue Thunder, based on the 1983 film of the same name, starring Roy Scheider. In the late 1990s, he appeared as the father of lead character Doug Ross on ER. Then, James himself filed for divorce in January 2001, also due to differences, however. Farentino was charged with stalking his girlfriend, Tina Sinatra in 1993. A restraining order was issued against him after he entered a plea of nolo contendere, Farentino was arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 23,1991, after Canada Customs intercepted a package containing 3.2 grams of cocaine being sent to his hotel room. Farentino was in town filming the TV movie Miles From Nowhere and he was charged with cocaine possession and released on bail. In 2010, Farentino was booked on suspicion of battery after a citizens arrest was made of the actor. Police were called to Farentinos Hollywood home and he was taken into custody and booked at the Los Angeles Police Departments Hollywood-area station. Farentino was released two days later after posting $20,000 bond, Police said the actor was trying to physically remove a man from his house. The man, who police said suffered visible bruising, made a citizens arrest of Farentino for battery, violent Midnight Ensign Pulver The War Lord The Pad and How to Use It The Ride to Hangmans Tree Banning Rosie. James Farentino at the Internet Movie Database James Farentino at the Internet Broadway Database James Farentino at Find a Grave

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Robert Reed
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Robert Reed was an American stage, film, and television actor. From 1961 to 1965, he portrayed Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders. He is best known as the father Mike Brady, opposite Florence Hendersons Carol Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch and he reprised the role of Mike Brady in several later reunion programs. In 1976, he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his role in a two-part episode of Medical Center and for his work on the miniseries Rich Man. The following year, Reed earned a third Emmy nomination for his role in the miniseries Roots, Reed was born John Robert Rietz, Jr. in the northern Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. He was the child of Helen and John Robert Rietz, Sr. who were high-school sweethearts. Reed attended the West Division School in Community Consolidated School District 62 until 1939 and his father worked for the government, and his mother was a homemaker. Reed spent his childhood years in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as well as Navasota. In Oklahoma, his father, John Sr. worked as a turkey, in his youth, Reed joined the 4-H agricultural club and showed calves, but was more interested in acting and music. While attending Central High School in Muskogee, he participated in both activities, Reed also took to the stage, where he performed and sang. He also worked as an announcer at local radio stations and wrote. Reed graduated from Muskogee Central in 1950, and enrolled at Northwestern University to study drama, during his years at Northwestern, Reed appeared in several plays under the direction of Alvina Krause, a celebrated Northwestern drama coach. Reed performed in more than eight plays in college, all with leading roles and he later studied for one term at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Upon returning to the United States, Reed appeared in stock in Eagles Mere. He later joined the theatre group The Shakespearewrights, and played Romeo in Romeo. After leaving the Shakespearewrights, Reed joined the Studebaker Theatre company in Chicago and he eventually adopted the stage name Robert Reed and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s to further pursue his acting career. Reed made his first guest-starring appearance in an episode of Father Knows Best in 1959 and this led to guest roles on Men into Space and Lawman, as well as his first credited film appearance in Bloodlust. In 1961, Reed landed his first television starring role in The Defenders alongside fellow Studebaker Theater performer E. G, Marshall, with the two playing a father-and-son team of defense attorneys

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Carl Betz
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Carl Lawrence Betz was an American stage, film and television actor. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Betz participated in childhood theatricals and he graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1939 and then served in the military. Following military service, he graduated from Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, between 1967 and 1969, he played defense attorney Clinton Judd in ABCs Judd for the Defense, and won an Emmy Award in 1969 for his work. After graduating from Mount Lebanon High School, in 1939, he won a scholarship to Duquesne University, during the summer, Betz performed in a Pittsburgh summer stock company and decided to transfer to Carnegie Mellon University, then known as Carnegie Tech, in Pittsburgh to study drama. His education was interrupted when, in 1942, he was drafted into the United States Army and he served in Italy and North Africa during World War II and eventually became a technical sergeant with the Corps of Engineers. After the war, Betz returned to Carnegie Tech and earned a degree in drama, after graduation, Betz worked as a radio announcer and disk jockey before moving to New York City. He continued working in summer and winter stock companies and also worked as a doorman at Radio City Music Hall, Betz made his Broadway debut in 1952 in The Long Watch, and toured with Veronica Lake in the summer stock play, The Voice of the Turtle. He then appeared for 18 months as Collie Jordan on Love of Life, prior to his eight-year run on The Donna Reed Show, Betz made guest appearances on such television series as Sheriff of Cochise, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Millionaire and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1958, Betz was cast as pediatrician Dr. Alex Stone in ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show, the show revolves around the home and school problems of a middle-class American family in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Alex was often called upon to rescue wife Donna Stone from awkward situations and to monitor the behavior of their children, Mary, Jeff Stone introduced the sentimental hit song My Dad in a 1962 episode, specifically singing the tune to Betz. The series was a hit for ABC and aired for eight seasons from September 1958 to March 1966, during the run of the series, Betz continued acting in stage roles during the shows hiatus. In 1964, he appeared as Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon in a stage run of The Night of the Iguana. After Donna Reeds cancellation, Betz returned to roles and stage work. In 1967, producer Paul Monash offered Betz the role of defense lawyer Clinton Judd in the drama, Judd. Monash had seen Betzs performance in Night of the Iguana in 1964 and was impressed with his acting, Betz initially thought the role was for a guest spot but soon realized Monash had proposed that he star in a new series. Betz initially had misgivings, stating I did not want to do another series, you get bored, the series, which premiered on ABC in September 1967, was praised by critics but struggled in the ratings. Shortly after ABC canceled the series in 1969, Betz won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series for his work on the series. He also made many guest appearances on a variety of television shows such as Mission, Impossible, The Mod Squad, Love, American Style

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Bill Bixby
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Wilfred Bailey Everett Bill Bixby III was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game-show panelist. His career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series, david Banner on the CBS science-fiction drama series The Incredible Hulk. An only child, Bixby was born a fourth-generation Californian of English descent, in San Francisco and his father, Wilfred Everett Bixby II, was a store clerk and his mother, Jane Bixby, was a senior manager at I. Magnin & Co. In 1942, When Bixby was eight years old, his father enlisted in the Navy during World War II, while in the seventh grade, Bixby attended Grace Cathedral and sang in the churchs choir. In one notable incident, he shot the bishop using a slingshot during one service and was kicked out of the choir, in 1946, his mother encouraged him to take ballroom dance lessons and from there he started dancing all around the city. While dancing, he attended Lowell High School, where he perfected his oratory, though he received average grades, he also competed in high-school speech tournaments regionally. Bixby and Meriwether later worked together on an episode of Barnaby Jones, later, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, his parents alma mater. Just four credits short of earning a degree, Bixby dropped out of college and was drafted into the Marines and he then moved to Hollywood, California, where he had a string of odd jobs that included bellhop and lifeguard. He organized shows at a resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1959, he was hired to work as a model and to do commercial work for General Motors and Chrysler. In 1961, Bixby was in the musical The Boy Friend at the Detroit Civic Theater, returning to Hollywood to make his television debut on an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. He became a highly regarded character actor and guest-starred in many 1960s TV series, including Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Kildare, Straightaway and he also joined the cast of The Joey Bishop Show in 1962. In 1963, he played a sailor with a Napoleon tattoo in the movie Irma La Douce, Bixby took the role of young reporter Tim OHara in the 1963 CBS sitcom, My Favorite Martian, in which he co-starred with Ray Walston. By 1966, though, high production costs forced the series to come to an end after 107 episodes. After the cancellation of Martian, Bixby starred in five movies, Ride Beyond Vengeance, Doctor, Youve Got to Be Kidding. and two of Elvis Presleys movies, Clambake, and Speedway. He turned down the role as Marlo Thomass boyfriend in the successful That Girl, though he later guest-starred on the show, in 1969, Bixby starred in his second high-profile television role, as Tom Corbett in The Courtship of Eddies Father, a comedy-drama on ABC. The series concerned a widowed father raising a son, managing a major syndicated magazine. This series was in the vein of other 1960s and 1970s sitcoms that dealt with widowerhood, such as The Andy Griffith Show, eddie was played by novice actor Brandon Cruz. The pair developed a rapport that translated to an off-camera friendship

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Jack Kelly (actor)
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Kelly later became a politician, having served from 1983 to 1986 as the mayor of Huntington Beach, California. His mother, Nan Kelly, had been a stage actress. Kellys father was a ticket broker, and after he moved the family to Hollywood. His sister, Oscar-nominated actress Nancy Kelly, was a prominent leading lady opposite Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power and his other two siblings, Carole and William Clement, also tried show business. When the Kellys were children, their mother would not serve meat or give medication when they were sick. Kelly served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, Kelly made his film debut in an uncredited role in the 1939 biopic The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, opposite Don Ameche and Loretta Young. On July 15,1954, Kelly played the gunfighter, cattleman, in 1955-1956 television season, Kelly starred in a series based on the 1942 feature film Kings Row. He played Dr. Parris Mitchell, a young psychiatrist coping with the environment of his small town. Kings Row was one-third of the Warner Bros, presents wheel series, hosted by Gig Young. It rotated at the hour of 7,30 Eastern on Tuesday with a similar television version of the popular movie Casablanca as well as the new ABC Western series Cheyenne starring Clint Walker. After the series ended in 1956, Kelly appeared in Forbidden Planet and She-Devil, along with guest roles on Fireside Theater, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Lux Video Theatre, the various anti-heroic Mavericks were dapper professional poker-players roaming the Old West with the benefit of superb scripts. The series had a cultural impact during a time when there were only three television networks and most cities had only three TV channels to choose from. Mavericks demanding filming schedule had caused production to lag behind early on, the producers decided to give Bret Maverick a brother so as not to run out of episodes long before the end of the season. Thus, Kelly was introduced as Bart Maverick in Hostage, the eighth episode of the series. While he may not have matched Garners popularity on Maverick, Kelly did have his enthusiastic admirers, possessing a deep voice, a John Barrymore-like profile and an easy-going screen presence, Kelly enjoyed an attentive following among female viewers of the series. Kelly shared the lead with James Garner in one of the shows most-discussed episodes, Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, the pair also co-starred in the famous Pappy episode in which Garner played the brothers much-quoted father Beauregard Pappy Maverick, in addition to his regular role of Bret. Aided by trick photography, Bret and Pappy play cards together in one scene, Bart also rescued Bret at the climax of Duel at Sundown, in which Garner fist fought guest star Clint Eastwood. All but one script during the shows first two years were written with Garner in mind regardless of which actor would eventually be cast, Roy Huggins insisted that the writers visualize Garner as Maverick while writing the scripts

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David Cassidy
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David Bruce Cassidy is a retired American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He later had a career in acting and music. Cassidy was born at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City and his father was of half-Irish and half-German ancestry, and his mother was of mostly Colonial American descent, along with smaller amounts of Irish and Swiss. Some of his mothers ancestors were among the founders of Newark, as his parents were frequently touring on the road, he spent his early years being raised by his maternal grandparents in a middle-class neighborhood in West Orange, New Jersey. In 1956, he found out from neighbors children that his parents had been divorced for two years and had not told him. Davids parents had decided because he was at such a young age and they were gone often with theater productions and home life remained the same. In 1956, his father married singer and actress Shirley Jones, David remained there seeking fame as an actor/musician while simultaneously working half-days in the mailroom of a textile firm. He moved out when his career began to flourish, Cassidys father Jack is credited with setting his son up with his first manager. Aarons had represented Jack and Shirley Jones for several years prior, aarons became an authority figure and close friend to Cassidy, and proved to be the fighting force behind his on-screen success. On January 2,1969, Cassidy made his debut in the Broadway musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling. It closed after four performances, but a casting director saw the show, in 1969, he moved to Los Angeles. After signing with Universal Studios in 1969, Cassidy was featured in episodes of the TV series Ironside, Marcus Welby, M. D. Adam-12, and Bonanza. In 1970, he took the part of Keith Partridge, son of Shirley Partridge, shortly after production began, though, Cassidy convinced music producer Wes Farrell that he was good enough and he was promoted to lead singer for the shows recordings. Once I Think I Love You became a hit, Cassidy began work on solo albums, as well. Within the first year, he had produced his own single, Cherish and he began tours that featured Partridge tunes and his own hits. Ten albums by The Partridge Family and five albums were produced during the show. Internationally, Cassidys solo career eclipsed the already success of The Partridge Family. He became an instant drawcard with spectacular sellout concert successes in major arenas around the world and these concerts produced mass hysteria, resulting in the media coining the term Cassidymania

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David Carradine
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David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist. He was known for his role as a peace-loving Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine. He was a member of a family that began with his father. Carradines acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage and television, a prolific B movie actor, he appeared in more than 100 feature films in career spanning over sixty years. He was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, for such as the television series Kung Fu, the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory. His final nomination came in the category of Best Supporting Actor for portraying the character in Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill. Films that featured Carradine continued to be released after his death and these posthumous credits were from a variety of genres including action, documentaries, drama, horror, martial arts, science fiction, and westerns. In addition to his career, Carradine was a director. Moreover, influenced by his most popular acting role, he studied martial arts and he was sometimes arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses, which often involved substance abuse. He died on June 3,2009, in a room in Bangkok, Thailand. Carradine was born on December 8,1936 as John Arthur Carradine, in Hollywood, California and he was a half-brother of Bruce, Keith, Christopher, and Robert Carradine, and an uncle of Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton, most of whom are also actors. Primarily of Irish descent, he was a great-grandson of Methodist evangelical author Beverly Carradine, called Jack by his family, Carradines childhood was turbulent. For example, his parents divorced and repeatedly remarried, he was born to his mothers marriage of three, and his fathers first of four. At the time of Carradines parents marriage, his mother already had a son by her first husband, John Carradine planned a large family, but after his wife had a series of miscarriages, he discovered she had numerous illegal abortions without his knowledge. This rendered her unable to carry a baby to full term, against this backdrop of marital discord, Jack almost succeeded in committing suicide by hanging at the age of five. He said the incident followed his discovery that he and his older half-brother Bruce, Carradine added, My father saved me, and then confiscated my comic book collection and burned it – which was scarcely the point. After three years of marriage, Ardenelle filed for divorce from John, but the couple remained married for five years. Divorce finally came in 1944, when Jack was seven years old and his father left California to avoid court action in the alimony settlement

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Rod Serling
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Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the young man of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism. Serling was born on December 25,1924, in Syracuse, New York and he was the second of two sons born to Esther and Samuel Lawrence Serling. Serlings father had worked as a secretary and amateur inventor before having children, sam Serling later became a butcher after the Great Depression forced the store to close. Rod had a brother, Robert J. Serling. Serling spent most of his youth 70 miles south of Syracuse in the city of Binghamton after his family moved there in 1926 and his parents encouraged his talents as a performer. Sam Serling built a stage in the basement, where Rod often put on plays. His older brother, writer Robert, recalled that, at the age of six or seven, Rod often talked to people around him without waiting for their answers. On a two-hour-long trip from Binghamton to Syracuse, the rest of the family remained silent to see if Rod would notice their lack of participation and he did not, talking nonstop through the entire car ride. In elementary school, Serling was seen as the class clown, however, his seventh-grade English teacher, Helen Foley, encouraged him to enter the schools public speaking extracurriculars. He joined the team and was a speaker at his high school graduation. He began writing for the newspaper, in which, according to the journalist Gordon Sander. He was also interested in sports and excelled at tennis and table tennis, when he attempted to join the varsity football team, he was told he was too small at 5 feet 4 inches tall. Serling was interested in radio and writing at an early age and he listened to various radio programs, especially thrillers with a fantasy or horror feel. Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin were two of his favorite writers and he also did some staff work at a Binghamton radio station. He was accepted into college during his year of high school. As editor of his school newspaper, Serling encouraged his fellow students to support the war effort. He wanted to leave school before graduation to join the fight, War is a temporary thing, Gus Youngstrom told him

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Alan Napier
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Alan William Napier-Clavering, better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatres, he had a film career, first, in Britain and, then. Napier is best known today for portraying Alfred Pennyworth the butler in the 1960s live-action Batman television series and he was educated at Packwood Haugh School and after graduating from Clifton College, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was engaged by the Oxford Players, where he worked with the likes of John Gielgud, ironically, as Napier recalled, height played a crucial part in his securing the position and also almost losing it. Fagan had dismissed Tyrone Guthrie because he was too tall for most parts, Napier was interviewed as Guthries replacement while sitting down. Fagan realized that Napier was even taller than Guthrie when he stood up, Napier performed for ten years on the West End stage. He made his American stage debut as the lead opposite Gladys George in Lady in Waiting. Though his film career had begun in Britain in the 1930s, there he spent time with such people as James Whale, a fellow ex-Oxford Player. He appeared in films as Random Harvest, Cat People. In The Song of Bernadette, he played the ethically questionable psychiatrist who is hired to declare Bernadette mentally ill and he also played the vicious Earl of Warwick in Joan of Arc. In 1949, he made an appearance on the television anthology series Your Show Time as Sherlock Holmes. In the 1950s, he appeared on TV in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, in 1965, he was the first to be cast in the Batman TV series, as Bruce Waynes faithful butler Alfred, a role he played until the series cancellation in 1968. I had never read comics before and my agent rang up and said, I think you are going to play on Batman, I said What is Batman. He said, Dont you read the comics and he said, I think you are going to be Batmans butler. I said, How do I know I want to be Batmans butler and it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard of. He said, It may be worth over $100,000, so I said I was Batmans butler. Napiers career extended into the 1980s, with TV roles in such miniseries as QB VII, The Bastard and Centennial and he finally retired in 1981, at the age of 78. In early 1988, Napier appeared on FOX Late Show talk show in a Batman reunion show, though in a wheelchair and visibly tired, Napier was lucid, with fond memories of his work on the show

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Richard Basehart
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John Richard Basehart was an American actor. He starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson in the television science fiction-drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and he also prominently portrayed Wilton Knight in the cult series Knight Rider. Basehart was equally active in cinema, receiving National Board of Review Awards for his performances in Fourteen Hours and he was further nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role in Time Limit, the directorial debut of Karl Malden. One of his most notable roles was the acrobat known as the Fool in the acclaimed Italian film La Strada. He was married to Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son, Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wises The House on Telegraph Hill. From 1964 to 1968, Basehart played the role, Admiral Harriman Nelson, on Irwin Allens first foray into science-fiction television. Although Basehart started his career as a actor, he reached a larger audience with his role in this series. Basehart was noted for his deep, distinctive voice and narrated a wide range of television, in 1964, he narrated the David Wolper documentary about the Kennedy assassination, Four Days in November. He appeared in the episode of the television series Knight Rider as billionaire Wilton Knight. He is the narrator at the beginning of the shows credits, Basehart took the lead role in the 1962 film Hitler. He appeared in Probe 7, Over and Out, an episode of The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, and as Hannibal Applewood, an abusive schoolteacher in Little House on the Prairie in 1976. In 1972, he appeared in the Columbo episode Dagger of the Mind in which he and Honor Blackman played a theatrical team who were loose parodies of Laurence Olivier. In the feature realm, he played a role as a doctor in Rage. He made a few TV movies including Sole Survivor and The Birdmen, both were based on true stories during World War II. In 1979, he appeared as a Russian diplomat with Peter Sellers in Being There, Baseheart was a public announcer during the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After the death of his first wife Stephanie Klein, he wed Italian actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had a son, after their divorce, Basehart married Diana Lotery, with whom he founded the charity Actors and Others for Animals. The charity was created after Basehart saw a small dog get thrown from a vehicle on a Los Angeles freeway. He was reportedly so moved by the tragedy that he started the nonprofit organization

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Martin Sheen
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Other notable films in Sheens career include Gandhi, Gettysburg, The Departed, and The Amazing Spider-Man. He also starred in the television series The West Wing as President Josiah Bartlet, in film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. Born and raised in the United States by immigrant parents, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts and he is the father of four children, all of whom are actors. Although known as an actor, Sheen also has directed one film, Cadence, appearing alongside sons Charlie, Sheen has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s. In addition to film and television, Sheen has been active in liberal politics, Sheen was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Mary-Ann and Francisco Estévez Martínez. During birth, Sheens left arm was crushed by forceps, giving him limited lateral movement of that arm, both of Sheens parents were immigrants, his mother from Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland, and his father was born in Salceda de Caselas, Galicia, Spain. After moving to Dayton in the 1930s, his father was a factory worker/machinery inspector at the National Cash Register Company, Sheen grew up on Brown Street in the South Park neighborhood, one of ten children. Due to his fathers work, the family lived in Bermuda on St. Johns Road, Pembroke, Martin was the first child to be born in Dayton, Ohio, after the family returned from Bermuda. Sheen contracted polio as a child and had to remain bedridden for a year and his doctors treatment using Sister Kennys method helped cure him and he regained use of his legs. When he was years old, Sheens mother died. The family was able to remain together with the assistance of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Dayton, raised as a Catholic, he graduated from Chaminade High School. At fourteen years, he organized a strike of golf caddies while working at a golf club in Dayton. He complained about the golfers, They often used obscene language in front of us and we were little boys and they were abusive. And they, for the most part, were upstanding members of the community, Sheen was drawn to acting at a young age, but his father disapproved of his interest in the field. Despite his fathers opposition, Sheen borrowed money from a Catholic priest and moved to New York City in his early twenties and he spent two years in the Living Theatre company. It was in New York that he met the legendary Catholic activist Dorothy Day, Sheen deliberately failed the entrance examination for the University of Dayton so that he could pursue his acting career. He adopted his name, Martin Sheen, from a combination of the CBS casting director, Robert Dale Martin, who gave him his first big break

Edward Bonney, an American bounty hunter and amateur detective, from Iowa, in 1845, infiltrated, the "Banditti of the Prairie", wrote the 1850 book, The Banditti of the Prairies: or, The murderer's doom, a tale of Mississippi Valley and the Far West; woodcut from 1850.